Commenter keepyourpay has this advice for the students: "Expend you mental energy on becoming a good engineer, accountant, lawyer, nurse, etc. Don't waste mental energy on worrying about offending anyone. They can get over it. Students, when you sit down for a job interview, you will not be asked how many people of other races you hugged, kissed, or had a beer with, you will be asked about your skill set."

Other commenters, however, think college is a place to learn more than how to a get a job. Check out the comments below and add your own.

bhamliberal:Kudos to those students who realize that more work is needed. Just because UA is better than it was in the 60's, that is a poor reason to stick your head in the sand and say "enough has been done".

kk1234:I agree. A college campus is suppose to be the location where students can experience diverse cultures and learn to interact with persons not coming from the same backgrounds and customs. These are suppose to be our future national and world leaders. The university administrations should take this issue has a significant time for change. They would be doing their students a disservice to allow them to continue in the same old "Alabama good old boy" mindsets.

kk1234:It far time to stop being silent about any time of racism as if it is not reigning in American, especially in Alabama. We need to break the generational cycle by coming out of our own cocoons and realize we need each other to thrive and survive.

hoover342:Good for the students, but I am embarrassed by the university administration's lack of a response and leadership on this issue.

stacey:We can carry being PC too far and do in many cases, but racism has NO place anywhere. No excuse for ignorant racism in 2011.

After college, the world is not a bed of roses, is not fair, you get things you don't deserve, don't get things you do deserve and people will be mean to you, sometimes you lose, you are not always a winner. People that don't know how to handle and deal with those things in life are the ones that go nuts later and go some place and shoot up the place and kill everyone.

The world is not a utopia and we shouldn't make college be a false utopia. College is SUPPOSED to be just another step in preparing kids for the REAL world. Clubs, Greeks, etc should exist and there is good and bad and seeing those differences can teach kids a lot. Now the racism....nope, no excuse for it today, I don't care what time someone grew up in. We as a people should have learned better by now.